ALLEN, Adolph C. (b. 1917)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Louisiana and Mississippi; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 5415 at Camp F-5 in New...

ARWINE, John (b. 1917)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Hurst, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp 1816 at Lake Worth, Texas; description of camp;...

AUSTIN, William P. (b. 1915)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Lake Worth, Texas; life in camp;...

BAKER, S. L. (b. 1917)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Jacksboro, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Cleburne, Texas; description of camp...

BANKS, John T. (b. 1916)

Welder. His experiences while employed by of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in the Dallas-Fort Worth area; joining the CCC; assignment to camps near Laramie,...

BARCLAY, James (b. 1923)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

BATES, Olen (b. 1916)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Carlsbad, New Mexico; description of camp; life...

BAXTER, Howard (b. 1918)

Businessman, maintenance man. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Aubrey, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at White...

BEARDEN, Ed (b. 1921)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Waxahachie, Texas and Campbell, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to camp in Wolfe City, Texas;...

BINION, Jack (b. 1914)

Educator. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Pilot Grove, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 857 near Denison, Texas;...

BOGGS, Albert (b. 1918)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Mixon, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2885 at SCS-19-T in Jacksonville, Texas;...

BOYDSTUN, J. Burton (b. 1919)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas and Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Lubbock,...

BROOKS, W. J. (b. 1913)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Kentucky; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 547 at Camp Robinson near Jackson, Kentucky and...

BROWN, Eugene L. (b. 1922)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Lakeview, Texas and McKinney, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp SP-53-T near...

BROWN, Lawrence (b. 1914)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

BUCK, J. W. (b. 1920)

Highway construction worker. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

BURGIN, Selwyn R. (b. 1914)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Terrell, Texas and Tyler, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Maydelle, Texas...

CASSEL, Robert (b. 1923)

Truck driver. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas and Louisiana; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Hackberry,...

CHANDLER, Hubert (b. 1917)

Janitor. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Wichita Falls, post-CCC life; Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2856...

CHENNAULT, James R. (b. 1915)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Mississippi; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Natchez, Mississippi;...

CLARK, Oliver (b. 1917)

Laborer. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

CLEMENT, Aubrey L (b. 1920)

Automobile mechanic. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Paris, Texas and Dallas, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to...

CONNOLLY, John (b. 1918)

Veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Childhood in Whitney and Amarillo, Texas; family’s difficulties in Great Depression; decision to enroll in the CCC; experiences at CCC camps in Cleburne and...

COX, Mort L. (b. 1914)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Arkansas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 741 in Camp Pike (later Camp Robinson) in North...

CRANE, Richard A. (b. 1916)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Mesquite, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 819 at Camp NP-2-A in Grand, Canyon...

CREACY, William W. (b. 1918)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Hagansport, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 855 at Camp BR-54-M in...

CRESSON, Louis (b. 1916)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pennsylvania; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp 74 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania and Camp 70...

CRIST, Robert (b. 1917)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pennsylvania; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp S-102 near Mehoopany, Pennsylvania;...

CROOKS, Richard (b. 1920)

Aircraft worker. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Covington, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a soil conservation camp...

DAMAN, M. L. (b. 1915)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

DAVIS, Glenn F. (b. 1924)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Plano, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 894 in Golden, Colorado; Company 2896 at...

DAVIS, Oscar L. (b. 1919)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Timpson, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2868 at Camp F-37-N in Dark Canyon,...

DAY, Henry C. (b. 1914)

Electrician, businessman. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Madeira Canyon,...

DEAN, Alvin (b. 1915)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Madeira Canyon, near Tucson, Arizona; camp...

DIES, Martin (b. 1900)

Attorney, former U.S. Congressman from Lufkin. Experiences as a Texas politician and U. S. Congressman, 1931-46, 1950-56; chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities during New Deal; views on...

DILLON, Paul (b. 1913)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pennsylvania; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1381 at Camp S-112 near Huntingdon,...

DOBBINS, Clarence C. (b. 1912)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in North Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 869...

DUNCAN, Kenneth W. (b. 1923)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Redvale, Colorado; camp...

EARGLE, David A. (b. 1914)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in South Carolina; joining the CCC; assignment to Black Gap Camp in the Smokey Mountains near...

EARNEST, Forrest B. (b. 1917)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas and Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 870 near Cache, Oklahoma;...

EDMISTON, Vick (b. 1919)

Truck driver. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma and Colorado; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Sentinel,...

ERSKINE, Jake C. (b. 1919)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Vernon, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2874 in Perryton, Texas; description...

EVANS, Peter (b. 1923)

His experiences while employed by the National Youth Administration during the Great Depression.

FOOTE, Charles P. (b. 1922)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Hunt County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at Wolfe City, Texas;...

GOSSETT, Ed (b. 1902)

Attorney, former U.S. Congressman from Wichita Falls, Texas, 1938-51, federal judge. Early law career; his unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 1936; his successful campaign for Congress in 1938 against...

HOKE, Frank A. (b. 1911)

Banker, attorney. His experiences as an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements;...

NAUGHTON, Willard B. (b. 1922)

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Colorado and Kansas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 4703 near Council Grove...

PAINTER, William E. (b. 1924)

College professor. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His pacifistic/isolationist background and the influence of his mother; his parents' attitude toward Franklin D....

PEACH, W. N. (b. 1912)

Professional economist. His experiences as one of the principal persons in the Rainey controversy at the University of Texas, 1944-45. His sympathies for New Deal labor legislation; being accused of pro-...

PIAZZA, Rev. Michael (b. 1954)

Pastor of the Dallas Cathedral of Hope. Childhood in Brunswick and Statesboro, Ga.; conversion from Catholicism to Methodist Church; decision to enter the ministry; process of “coming out” to...

POWELL, Steve (b. 1945)

For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill and longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Childhood and education in McKinney public schools; work as cotton...

SALMON, W. W. (b. 1909)

His experiences as an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting procedures;...

SEWALT, Mary Anna (b. 1917)

Her participation in the development of the Republican Party in Texas, 1944-93. Youth in West Texas; employment with WPA (Works Progress Administration) during the New Deal years; decision to join...

SMITH, Donald M. (b. 1912)

Businessman His experiences as the head of Riverside Foundry, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, during World War II Foundry business during the Great Depression; thoughts about Franklin D Roosevelt and the...

STEVENSON, Coke R. (b. 1888)

Former member of the Texas House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1941-46. Forty-first Legislature; prison reform; administration of Governor...

STROUD, James (b. 1914)

Civil service administrator, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Democrat. His experiences as an employee in the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the...

WALKER, Joel (b. 1908)

Banker. His experiences as an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting...

WHITE, Walter (b. 1906)

Retired federal labor mediator and conciliator. Experiences and reminiscences from his thirty-year career with the U.S. Conciliation Service and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; early...